New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-01
:, AUTHORS SEEN AND HEARD.
loNGFElLow MEMORIAL FUND AIDED.
John RUSSELL LOWELL, DR. HOLMES, Mr. HowELLS
MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE, MR. ALpkiCH'
MARK TWAIN AND COLONEL HIGGIN-

John RUSSELL LOWELL, DR. HOLMES, Mr. HowELlS
MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE, MR. ALpRiCH,
MARK TWAIN AND COLONEL HIGGIN-
SON TOGETHER ON THE STAGE.
KRosroy. March 81 ,SpeciaD-The entertainment
siven in the Be- ston Museum this afternoon to swell
hhe Lonptellow Memorial Fund was unique and ite
6ke may never again DO witnessed. 1t consisted OF
The reading Of selections from their own works by
NIGHT gentlemen and one lady whose fame Is world.
vide Notwithstanding the price OF tickets, from ~ to
$5 each, house three times the capacity OF the
Auseum might have been filed The LOngfellow
Fund is designed create beautiful garden out OF
piece OF land OF several acres in front OF the poets o
home in Cambridge, which generously given tor
that purpose by Longellows friends after his death,
and TO erect there statue ct the peel already acou.
Rl4OUO has been secured and 81. OOO moro mas oeen
subscribed cOnditionslly upon raising the balance.
Mr. W. ID. Howells suggested the readings winch were
xiven to-day. and which ha' added aDoa. SoUoU 20
breip was D. NJ but long before that time people
who puld not purchase reserved seats were pouring
into the Museum to secure vantage ground. Inc
audence represente the distinguished families OF
Boston and Cambridge, and was largely composed OF
ladies One box was occupied by the Rev Samuel
Longfellow, MISS Anna Lougtelcw and other mem"-rs
nj tn. family Another box was bought and occupied
by R. NJ Field third by Colonel GSar ns III: ayGr
Amons others seated in the house were ME- Robert "
winthrop MR.. Writ Dexter, Mira Ole Bull. Mrs. Martin
F F%%s M Lucy conn Mis-. @
MIRA Celia Thaxter. Mrs. Elierton Pratt Henry L.
Pierce, Captain J. B; Thomas and Mrs. noma,; Mrs.
james T. Fields Mas Sarah o. Jewett, Mss Louise
Chandler Moulton, Mr. and Mrs: John Elliott. MIRA
Towne, Dr. Helen Morton. Mrs. Whitman. Dexter N.
kicoards. Mrs E. Whppe Mrs RoGrr M M1s;os
Miss AIgor Mrs. John A. Andrew, Mics Derby arthur
T. Lyman, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas f. Proctor. Mrs =.
Mrs. James Jam H. Beal. Mr.. Joseph Cook MIR. G. b
TInghast and Mrs. Tillinghast Dean Gray, OF Cam
Pbilfo, Brooks. Henry D. HYDE, John II. Hubbell, II.
l. Hovey Wellesley College, Laselle Seminary. Miss
Johnsons School and several other educational ino'
buttons were we'll req resented. a.
AT five minutes past O'Clock the curtain rose, dis
CLOSING q drawing scene through the opening at
the rear appearing conservatory. Near inc iSot'
Wit Dex Ier as compliment to those who participated
Ia the entertainment About the room were CHAIRS
aide which sat Mrs Julia Ward Howe. At the extreue
lett OF tho secrce extending across the stage was
the Rev. DR.. Edward f. Hale; BY him sat James mes
GENIAL face of DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes Oh the
sofa behind the Doctor Colonel Thomas Wentworth
Higginsou At the extreme right was the humorst'
Curtis and next were Thomas Bailey Aidrich and WIZ
lam ID. Howes. Those who are familiar with me
friends can picture to their minds the attitudes and
expfe, sion Of this group OF American authors me
only particular in which the latter tailed to be the full
counterpart the former being in the lack OF the
central figure to unity the whole This was supphea IN
the Imagination OF all who could see the presiding
shirt that was present in the ntre conception that
of Longtellow. Around trat idealized onaty. IN
fancy ut least. the essaysis. wits and poets that
formed tue semi-circle the stage may be SAID 10
have been grouped and without it, this singular ana
perhaps unparalleled congress OF authors In New
Epoland could ne YER have been gathered From Mark
IVAN AZ the extreme lett representing indigenous
American humor to DIR. Oliver Wendell tonnes on Inc
right, who represented both bumor and poesy; every
figure was full OF individuality and was district
ACQUISITION to the picture the shapely had snd boldly
out liueamcnts of Georg" Nillim Curtis. the little
round H. re and rosy cheeks OF Thomas b. AidnGn,
the tall martial form of Colonel Hl!ginsoD. and the
solid Napc comic suggestiveness OF William ID. How.
ellis well the grave and DOW almost pntriarchai
exterior a James Russell Dwell combining TO give
unity and variety to the table III. Whittier. alone OF
the great authors absent being to- feeble to be
present. ...,-
ot a literary character There muOic, no dec
Grafton noting distract tho attention from the os-
inyu,shed people who quietly seated IN place
entirely new TO all of them Will could no. be said
that their first appearance on an' stage IL was
the first 81 a Soro on srscsuv preHed
and introduced each reader win lew pleasant anu
appropriate words. Mark Twain was called on first
IA he was Obliged to take early traiu TO 6 an en-
gagement at New-Haven this evening. lie was en-
1siastcaly received. ami usual irresistibly
funny reading selections from bis contribution TO the
Apri Century y" Eng isb - she IS taught, and az
this had not been seen by any In the audience there
was much interest manifested , -,
Dr. Holmes read in q distinct manner. perfectly clear
to those in the rrar Of the house The ChaWoeIn,
Nautilus and Dorothy g.. Before reading the ias'
time, mssps He'd For instance an English paper once
made 1t Dorothy Cue. which would all be very well
NJ 81" lmi;a Ward Howe read q The Battle Hymn of
the Renublic," .Our Orders" ard new poem, =" A
Memorial to Longfellow." The Rev. Edward Everett
Hale read an old poem. The Great Harvest ! ear
Mr Aldrich read selections from his story The al
ventures OF Dad boy" Colosel liggihson read in an
adm ,rable mannar his amusing sketch, Voc atoms tor
Sats" Mr. Howells road from bis W edd'ns
Journey George William Curtis read from Po'i,
phar Papers," and James Russell Dwell concini"h
the entertainment by reading Long fellows Building
nj tb, hin and lew ver,es which he wrote thirty
wears ago to Lonytclow on the occasion OF birthday
Anniversary H. NJ. Field generou,lv gave the use oil
the theatre tree OF charge and Mr. Seymour the stage
manager who was bliged to take the oompan to ths
Howard Athenaeum Tor rehearsal. made all the n"c-s
sary arran gcmAps aud about the stage that c"ud
add TO the surcss Of the entertainment: and tho con-
venience of the authors.